Let me clarify the internet. Up until 2008 or so, the internet had been organically populated with, not necessarily all true, but genuine and well intended information. Once people realized Lehman Bros had been bullshitting the entire time, the financiers that loot our world continuously realized they would have to conquer the internet in order to continue bullshitting and looting the world. So they used the bankruptcy of Lehman Bros to begin printing massive amounts of fiat money and sponsoring massive amounts of new bullshit on the internet. They sponsored misleading content creators. They sponsored misleading "news" oriented sites. They printed so much fake money and the following decade became the decade of garbage on the net. Such that today we have the situation you describe.